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早期

zǎoqī

early period

HSK 5 · Topic “Time and dates”
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Characters in this word

早 zǎo

Strokes
6
Radical
日 — sun
Made of
日 sun 十 ten, tenth
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

期 qī

Strokes
12
Radical
月 — moon
Made of
其 his, her, its, their 月 moon
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 期

Example phrases

  • 早期很难。 Zǎoqī hěn nán. The early period is hard.
  • 公司早期很小。 Gōngsī zǎoqī hěn xiǎo. The company was small at first.
  • 他早期住北京。 Tā zǎoqī zhù Běijīng. He lived in Beijing early on.

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